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21/03/2010

Godzilla's Den!

DESIGNING AND MAKING THE VIDEO GAMES

Our class designed our very own video games for our topic on Japan. We knew from the beginning that our focus was to present our ideas to 3 Godzillas (3 experienced people from the video games industry). Sort of like the TV programme, 'Dragon's Den.' At first our group talked about the idea of a sushi chef who saves from evil sushi that tries to take over Japan! We split into groups of different subjects, one group was designing characters and the other was designing levels.

The character group designed all the enemies, points and characters while the level group designed all the levels and goals. We also had to include a bonus level to collect points at the end of the game.

PRESENTING TO THE GODZILLAS

Once our games were finished we had to write a script about our video games to present it to the Godzillas who were a game fanatic, a game designer and a journalist. We all wrote a script about each thing in our video game and practised it lots and lots. One person talked about points, one person talked about a character etc.. Then we each made a slide show and added sound pictures and we designed a poster for each group to put at the end of the slide show. Also at the beginning of each presentation we all had to do a drama about the game, like if your character’s experiment goes horribly wrong and creates evil you could act that scene out.
When the day came to present it to the Godzillas most of the class was feeling excited and the rest were feeling excited and nervous at the same time and when they walked in to the room we all sang Blue Oyster Cult’s "Go Go Godzilla!!!" Then we all presented our games.

At the end of each presentation the Godzillas asked us a few questions about our video games and told us about the things that they enjoyed about the presentations and we got to ask them a few questions about making games, playing games and reviewing games.

RECORDING THE PRESENTATIONS AS A MOVIE

We also recorded our presentations and slide shows and put them into imovie. We made animations for our game with "I can animate" the same way we made the tangram animation and origami animation. Our group did level one [where you have to defeat all the sushi in Tokyo] and level three [where you have to kill the Sushi King!!! ]Other groups did animations like on a roof of a pagoda fighting the last enemy, which is all the other enemies combined!

In another group’s animation you're running through Tokyo trying to defeat Ishi who is an evil midget who works for Yon Yang that wants to make Mount Fudgie erupt (Mount Fuji but it erupts fudge)!!!

17/03/2010

Godzilla Newspaper Reports

We made our very own Godzilla Newspapers. First of all we watched the film Godzilla and focused on some of the characters. We talked a lot about the setting and sounds. Did you know Godzilla starred in 28 Japanese films and 1 American Film? The clip was about Godzilla invading Tokyo and destroying buildings and there was a lot of fire in this film. It was the first Godzilla movie made by Ishiro Honda. After watching it again and again we started. First of all we planned how we would report Godzilla's attack on Tokyo and what eyewitness quotes we would use. We acted out the feelings of the eyewitnesses by putting them on a hot seat and asking them questions. Once we had done that we made up headlines and newspaper names for our newspapers. After writing a draft copy we had to write it out neatly on a piece of A3 paper that had been cut out into columns and add a front page picture. While our teacher checked it again (this time our good copy) we waited. Finally he had finished checking. Next we put it up on the wall outside our classroom for everyone to see our fab newspapers. We all enjoyed writing the Godzilla Newspapers and the short clip we watched.